We’re talking about the company that once released a utility called the Critical Update Notification Tool (then quickly changed “Tool” to “Utility” when people started laughing). Abbreviations were never their strength.
Some of that has to be engineers taking the piss. We are all the same kind of geek-ass bastard, and we love this kind of stupid thing.
IIRC, IBM’s PowerPC chips had some of their instructions renamed in 1994. There were some very plausible motives given for changing how mnemonics worked. Mentioning flag names was boilerplate, abbreviating “ex-” words as X was too American, that sort of thing. So officially, there’s no particular reason the Enforce In-order Execution of Input / Output command is EIEIO.
How could even Microsoft release a product named WinCE? I’ve marveled at it for decades.
We’re talking about the company that once released a utility called the Critical Update Notification Tool (then quickly changed “Tool” to “Utility” when people started laughing). Abbreviations were never their strength.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Update#Critical_Update_Notification_Utility
Some of that has to be engineers taking the piss. We are all the same kind of geek-ass bastard, and we love this kind of stupid thing.
IIRC, IBM’s PowerPC chips had some of their instructions renamed in 1994. There were some very plausible motives given for changing how mnemonics worked. Mentioning flag names was boilerplate, abbreviating “ex-” words as X was too American, that sort of thing. So officially, there’s no particular reason the Enforce In-order Execution of Input / Output command is EIEIO.
I had somehow missed that one. Thanks for giving me something else to laugh about.
To quote Epic Rap Battles of History, “Why’d you name your company after your dick?”
I never noticed that for years. Now I can’t unread that word anymore. Thanks.
Glad I could help. :-)